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Ann Lois Romney (née Davies; born April 16, 1949) is an American author and philanthropist. She is married to politician and businessman Mitt Romney and was First Lady of Massachusetts during her husband's tenure as governor of that state.
Davies was born in Detroit and raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where she attended the private Kingswood School. After converting to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in 1966, Davies attended Brigham Young University (BYU). She married Mitt Romney in 1969 and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in French in 1975.
As First Lady of Massachusetts, Romney served as the governor's liaison for federal faith-based initiatives. She was involved in a number of children's charities, including Operation Kids. Later, she was an active participant in her husband's U.S. presidential campaigns in 2008 and in 2012.
Romney was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1998. She has credited a mixture of mainstream and alternative treatments with giving her a lifestyle mostly without limitations, and has said that equestrianism has helped her maintain her health. Romney has received recognition in dressage as an adult amateur at the national level and has competed professionally in Grand Prix as well. In 2014, she opened the Ann Romney Center for Neurological Diseases at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston; the Center performs intersectional research regarding multiple sclerosis and several other brain diseases.
Born Ann Lois Davies in Detroit on April 16, 1949, she was raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, by parents Edward Roderick Davies and Lois (Pottinger) Davies. She has two brothers. Her father, originally from Caerau near Maesteg, Wales, was a self-made businessman who in 1946 co-founded Jered Industries, a maker of heavy machinery for marine use located in Troy, Michigan. He had also held the part-time position of Mayor of Bloomfield Hills. Raised in the Welsh Congregationalists, he had become strongly opposed to all organized religion, although on her request the family very occasionally attended church, and she nominally identified as an Episcopalian. At times, she helped out at her father's plant.
Ann Davies knew of Mitt Romney since elementary school. She went to the private Kingswood School in Bloomfield Hills, which was the sister school to the all-boys Cranbrook School that he attended. The two were re-introduced and began dating in March 1965; they informally agreed to marriage after his senior prom in June 1965. He talked of the marriage taking place in the near future, but she insisted that he go on Mormon missionary duty on the grounds that he would regret it later if he did not.
Mitt attended Stanford University for a year and then was away starting a 2+1⁄2-year missionary stint in France. During 1966, she converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, without him having made any request to her that she do so. In the conversion process she accepted the guidance of Mitt's father George Romney, the Governor of Michigan. George included her in Romney family events while Mitt was away; she appreciated his treating her as an equal and picked him to baptize her.
Ann graduated from high school in 1967 and began attending Brigham Young University (BYU). She spent the second semester of her freshman year abroad, at the University of Grenoble in France, and was there during the 1968 Winter Olympics and met athletes such as skiing star Jean-Claude Killy. The Mormon missionary rules allowed her only two brief visits with Mitt and very rare telephone calls with him. Back at BYU, she involved herself in campus life, spending several days a week as a volunteer in the academic affairs office. While at BYU, she dated future business academic Kim S. Cameron. She sent Mitt a letter mentioning being courted by another student who she said reminded her of Mitt; this alarmed Mitt as missionaries often received "Dear John" letters from girlfriends while away. Mitt sent letters back imploring her to wait for him.
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Ann Romney
Ann Lois Romney (née Davies; born April 16, 1949) is an American author and philanthropist. She is married to politician and businessman Mitt Romney and was First Lady of Massachusetts during her husband's tenure as governor of that state.
Davies was born in Detroit and raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where she attended the private Kingswood School. After converting to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in 1966, Davies attended Brigham Young University (BYU). She married Mitt Romney in 1969 and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in French in 1975.
As First Lady of Massachusetts, Romney served as the governor's liaison for federal faith-based initiatives. She was involved in a number of children's charities, including Operation Kids. Later, she was an active participant in her husband's U.S. presidential campaigns in 2008 and in 2012.
Romney was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1998. She has credited a mixture of mainstream and alternative treatments with giving her a lifestyle mostly without limitations, and has said that equestrianism has helped her maintain her health. Romney has received recognition in dressage as an adult amateur at the national level and has competed professionally in Grand Prix as well. In 2014, she opened the Ann Romney Center for Neurological Diseases at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston; the Center performs intersectional research regarding multiple sclerosis and several other brain diseases.
Born Ann Lois Davies in Detroit on April 16, 1949, she was raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, by parents Edward Roderick Davies and Lois (Pottinger) Davies. She has two brothers. Her father, originally from Caerau near Maesteg, Wales, was a self-made businessman who in 1946 co-founded Jered Industries, a maker of heavy machinery for marine use located in Troy, Michigan. He had also held the part-time position of Mayor of Bloomfield Hills. Raised in the Welsh Congregationalists, he had become strongly opposed to all organized religion, although on her request the family very occasionally attended church, and she nominally identified as an Episcopalian. At times, she helped out at her father's plant.
Ann Davies knew of Mitt Romney since elementary school. She went to the private Kingswood School in Bloomfield Hills, which was the sister school to the all-boys Cranbrook School that he attended. The two were re-introduced and began dating in March 1965; they informally agreed to marriage after his senior prom in June 1965. He talked of the marriage taking place in the near future, but she insisted that he go on Mormon missionary duty on the grounds that he would regret it later if he did not.
Mitt attended Stanford University for a year and then was away starting a 2+1⁄2-year missionary stint in France. During 1966, she converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, without him having made any request to her that she do so. In the conversion process she accepted the guidance of Mitt's father George Romney, the Governor of Michigan. George included her in Romney family events while Mitt was away; she appreciated his treating her as an equal and picked him to baptize her.
Ann graduated from high school in 1967 and began attending Brigham Young University (BYU). She spent the second semester of her freshman year abroad, at the University of Grenoble in France, and was there during the 1968 Winter Olympics and met athletes such as skiing star Jean-Claude Killy. The Mormon missionary rules allowed her only two brief visits with Mitt and very rare telephone calls with him. Back at BYU, she involved herself in campus life, spending several days a week as a volunteer in the academic affairs office. While at BYU, she dated future business academic Kim S. Cameron. She sent Mitt a letter mentioning being courted by another student who she said reminded her of Mitt; this alarmed Mitt as missionaries often received "Dear John" letters from girlfriends while away. Mitt sent letters back imploring her to wait for him.
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